This video documents the disappearing languages of the Eastern Maroons of Moore Town, Jamaica. The languages are (i) Kromanti, a language variety related to the Akan language cluster of West Africa, and (ii) Uol Taim Patwa or 'Maroon Spirit Language', a very archaic form of English-lexicon Creole, similar in many ways to the Creole languages of Suriname. The language is presented through Mr Isaac Bernard, one the last culture bearers of the community, with a good command of these languages. The video is part of the Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages website, which is co-sponsored by the Jamaican Language Unit/Unit for Caribbean Language Research, University of the West Indies, Mona, and UNESCO. www.caribbeanlanguages.org.jm
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Another in the series of the jamaican patwa language
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This video documents the disappearing languages of the Eastern Maroons of Moore Town, Jamaica. The languages are (i) Kromanti, a language variety related to the Akan language cluster of West Africa, and (ii) Uol Taim Patwa or 'Maroon Spirit Language', a very archaic form of English-lexicon Creole, similar in many ways to the Creole languages of Suriname. The language is presented through Mr Isaac Bernard, one the last culture bearers of the community, with a good command of these languages. The video is part of the Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages website, which is co-sponsored by the Jamaican Language Unit/Unit for Caribbean Language Research, University of the West Indies, Mona, and UNESCO. www.caribbeanlanguages.org.jm
Tags :maroon, spirit, language, 'uol taim patwa', Creole, suriname, jamaica, 'Moore Town', akan, endangered, indigenous, UNESCO, 'Jamaican Language Unit', JLU, west africa, linguistics

This video documents the disappearing languages of the Eastern Maroons of Moore Town, Jamaica. The languages are (i) Kromanti, a language variety related to the Akan language cluster of West Africa, and (ii) Uol Taim Patwa or 'Maroon Spirit Language', a very archaic form of English-lexicon Creole, similar in many ways to the Creole languages of Suriname. The language is presented through Mr Isaac Bernard, one the last culture bearers of the community, with a good command of these languages. The video is part of the Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages website, which is co-sponsored by the Jamaican Language Unit/Unit for Caribbean Language Research, University of the West Indies, Mona, and UNESCO. www.caribbeanlanguages.org.jm
Tags :maroon, spirit, language, 'uol taim patwa', Creole, suriname, jamaica, 'Moore Town', akan, endangered, indigenous, UNESCO, 'Jamaican Language Unit', JLU, west africa, linguistics

words starting with the letter "c"
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Jamaica's Dr. Louise Bennett Coverley or Miss Lou as she was affectionately called, was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 7th September, 1919. A cultural icon locally, regionally and internationally, Miss Lou was one of Jamaica's leading comediennes and the 'only poet who . . .really hit the truth about her society through its own language.'
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Comprehensive video overview of the Jamaican Patois language and disspelling a few patois related myths about Jamaica SPECIAL NOTE: The Jamaican patois language is still being officially standardized, so some of the spellings used here in the series, may not correspond with others published. Spellings used here are what the presenter thinks best captures how the words should be pronounced. Subscribe and learn how to speak the Jamaican patois language by watching Jamaican Sinting! Rispeck!
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The Dialect fondly referred to as PATOIS is in fact Jamaica's' own language, correct, you read right. TWI ,a language "imported" from Africa and edited to have disallowed easy and or immediate comprehension. This language was intentionally formed for number of reasons........However, Ms. Lou a true Jamaican Patriot expresses quite appropriately.I do hope others like you also realize and appreciate Jamaica ,culture,history and yes....our future. nb. for copyright issues I chose not to have posted any graphic.
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The best of the best South Sudan Comedian Akook Deng Arech Angui Akook speaking Jamaican Language( Patwa )Part 7 presented to you by the South Sudan Comedians/Comics Organization. Special thanks to Mocjang,Miss Natural Beauty Pageant, Tears Off Organization,Sudan Artists Association and Sudan Entertainment Radio for their wonderful support to our South Sudan Comedians/Comics Organization.Thank you and enjoy!SPLR News
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learn ways of saying hello (greeting people) in the Jamaican patois dialect.
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This is a teaser for the launch of the book: Writing Jamaican the Jamaican Way. this book, produced by the Jamaican Language Unit in collaboration with Arawak Publications, is a manual on how to write the Jamaican Language using the standard Cassidy writing system. It contains samples of literature in Jamaican and a CD/DVD with audio and video performances of work in the Jamaican Language, in music, poetry and prose. Order Book here arawakpublications.com
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AKSHAN TAAK, is a Jamaican Language company (JLC) production done in association with the Jamaican Language Unit. It is a news commentary program done solely in Jamaican (More commonly referred to as Patwa or Jamaican Creole), which reports on how the media covers the news relevant to Jamaica and Jamaicans in general. This inaugural episode looks at the recently held 2008 Olympic games and the different angles from which various media centers covered the phenomenal performance of the Jamaican athletic team.
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The video presents the Garifuna Language through the eyes of perhaps its most revered composer of songs and hymns, Marceline Beata Lambey. The composition of the songs has a story behind it. The teller of that tale is Enita Barrett, nee Lambey, a granddaughter of Marcelina, who was taught the songs of her grandmother by her grandmother. This video is part of a Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages website mounted by the Jamaican Language Unit/Unit for Caribbean Language Research of the University of the West Indies and sponsored by UNESCO at www.caribbeanlanguages.org.jm
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AKSHAN TAAK, is a Jamaican Language company (JLC) production done in association with the Jamaican Language Unit. It is a news commentary program done solely in the Jamaican Language which reports on how the media covers the news relevant to Jamaica and Jamaicans in general. This episode is a flash back in time to the events of October 1968 when Walter Rodney, a Guyanese lecturer in African History at the University of the West Indies, was banned from reentering Jamaican. The flashback covers the student demonstrations and the riots and protests in Kingston which followed the banning.
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AKSHAN TAAK, is a Jamaican Language company (JLC) production done in association with the Jamaican Language Unit. It is a news commentary program done solely in the Jamaican Language which reports on how the media covers the news relevant to Jamaica and Jamaicans in general. This is the first in a series of new episodes which are a daily reports (presented four days a week) on the major news story affecting Jamaica and Jamaicans in general. The episodes are 3-4 minutes long and therefore gets to the main point(s) of each story while by no means leaving anything of importance out. In this episode news-caster Rennae Nichols reports on the presence of Influenza A in Jamaica and on what local Health Authorities are doing to combat it and prevent the spread of the deadly virus.
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The video pursues the last remaining speakers of the Lokono language, otherwise known as Arawak, in Guyana. I does so on the Essequibo Coast in the area of Mainstay/Tapakuma and Wakapoa on the Pomeroon River. Of the 20000 ethnic Arawaks in Guyana, only a diminishing number of people over 60 years of age can speak the language. This is a dying language. The video seeks to alert us to this tragedy of the 'Silencing of the Tongues' through interviews with some of the last speakers of the language and hearing the language spoken. The interviews were conducted by Ian Robertson, Hubert Devonish & Daidrah Smith
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learn some 'responses to greetings' using the Jamaican patwa dialect when someone greets you in the Jamaican language.
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We claim no rights to this song or lyrics We had the honor to meet the ministry team from this amazing ministry to the deaf in Jamaica, "Carribean Christian Centre for the Deaf". They have three campuses, and a dynamic ministry that is impacting their nation. It was a privelege to connect with them and witness the power of God working through them. Their ministry touched our hearts.For more information on CCCD, please visit their website:www.cccdjamaica.org
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This is a music video By Up and coming artist GemSto:n (Nickesha T. Dawkins). It was commissioned by the Jamaican Language Unit. The lyrics are originally done by Miss. Dawkins with some modifications by Professor Hubert Devonish. The song speaks about the Cassidy-JLU system for writing Jamaican Creole and touches on issues of national identity via language. It advocates for the use of Jamaican Creole alongside Standard Jamaican English in Schools etc and urges Jamaicans to be proud of their mother tongue by eradicating the negative stereotypes that they themselves have placed on the use of what is for most Jamaicans their first language. Order the Book here: arawakpublications.com
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